Missouri Republicans. I hate Missouri Republicans.

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HOUSE BILL NO. 213

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES CUNNINGHAM (86) (Sponsor) AND RUESTMAN (Co-sponsor).

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(1) The report required in this subsection shall address the specific measures taken by the institution to ensure and promote intellectual diversity and academic freedom. The report may include steps taken by the institution to:

(a) Conduct a study to assess the current state of intellectual diversity on its campus, including diversity-related criteria used in admissions, scholarship awards, and hiring which shall include racial and gender diversity;

(b) Incorporate intellectual diversity into institution statements, grievance procedures, which may include filing a complaint directly with the governing board, and activities on diversity;

(c) Encourage a balanced variety of campus-wide panels and speakers and annually publish the names of panelists and speakers;

(d) Establish clear campus policies that ensure that hecklers or threats of violence do not prevent speakers from speaking;

(e) Include intellectual diversity concerns in the institution’s guidelines on teaching and program development and such concerns shall include but not be limited to the protection of religious freedom including the viewpoint that the Bible is inerrant;

(f) Include intellectual diversity issues in student course evaluations;

While they’re at it, they should seek to protect things like Holocaust denial and the belief the earth is flat.

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• Bartle and Lembke hate democracy
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